Neolithic age

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (period in time varies per geographical area)

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Neolithic age':

  • Atapuerca "The Galería del Silex contains abundant evidence of human occupation during the Neolithic and Bronze Age. More fifty painted and engraved panels have been recorded, with geometrical motifs, hunting scenes, and anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures." (AB)
  • Ban Chiang
  • Bend of the Boyne
  • Byblos
  • Choirokoitia
  • Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
  • Lopé-Okanda
  • Matera Traces history bak to Neolithic Age, famous for "Matera ware" pottery ; link
  • Megalithic Temples of Malta
  • Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
  • Neolithic Orkney
  • Parthian Fortresses of Nisa New Nisa - Neu-Nisa war der erste Ort, an dem die neolithische Dschejtun-Kultur nachgewiesen wurde. (Wiki)
  • Pyrénées - Mount Perdu Mont Perdu - several sites including the Dolmen from Tella
  • Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
  • Sangiran Early Man Site Some Neolithic remains have been found but the main period of interest regarding the human remains was much earlier
  • Southern Öland "Passage graves on Västra Landborgen provide evidence for permanent settlement in the Neolithic period."
  • St. Kilda "Recently, the first direct evidence of earlier Neolithic settlement emerged—shards of pottery of the Hebridean ware style, found to the east of the village."
  • Stonehenge
  • Tassili n'Ajjer
  • Vegaøyan "The abundance of resources led to great activity throughout the Mesolithic and Neolithic. So far, Stone Age finds have been recorded at 108 locations on Vega, the majority being habitation sites." (nomination dossier)